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Name: | Tosson Hill |
Hill number: | 2315 |
Height: | 441.7m / 1449ft |
RHB Section: | 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Cheviots |
County/UA: | Northumberland |
Catchment: | Coquet, Catchment Boundaries |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (400-499m), Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,4,Cm) |
Grid ref: | NZ 00482 98244 |
Summit feature: | trig point |
Drop: | 249.1m |
Col: | 192.6m NY 9480 9420 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 81 (1:25k) OL42E |
Survey: | Abney level |
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GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 319 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From car park to the east and over Simonside before the muddy walk to the summit. Once back at the college descended to the roadside via forestry road then a lovely waymarked path in the woods. 
A great 8.5 mile circuit. | KevPalmer | 23/03/2024 |
From forest parking to the east. Simonside then onto Tosson Hill. | Alan Caine | 22/03/2024 |
From Limekiln car park N of village and then up through woods - took longer than I thought - a proper ascent. Nice clear Autumn day. | davechaffey | 03/10/2023 |
From car park to E. Lovely sunny day with strong breeze. Started on St Oswald's Way to Coquet Cairn - that part was great but bridleway leading north to Simonside turned out no longer to exist. ATV grouse shooting track, then a nightmare of thigh-high tussocks, tree stumps and annoying flies. Got blisters as Altbergs still not broken in and had left compeed in other rucksack. After Tosson, and a very light shower, slowly back over the other hills. | Rounsfell | 11/08/2023 |
A tour of the Simonside Hills from the free car park near Lordenshaw. The long walk took in Simonside, a revisit to Tosson Hill, Darden Rigg, Gunner's Box, then a long walk back along the St. 
 Oswald's Way to the car park. This was followed by a quick trip up to Garleigh Hill - both the trig and old fort. Altogether it was a 32km round with 730m ascent, taking me 9 hours. Not a cloud in the sky! The ground was tinder dry, but the going easy. | silverwolf_alan | 29/05/2023 |
From Simonside. Stands in the shadow of its less high neighbour. Returned to car park over Simonside to double the enjoyment. | Wycombe Wanderer | 14/05/2023 |
Up from FC car park. Good tracks/paths until 410m then wet/muddy path across to summit. | PeteF | 30/04/2023 |
Parked at Great Tosson, nice walk up ROW just west of the woods, dry through woods but bog and snow thereafter. | iangalbraith | 15/01/2023 |
Parked next to the tower in Great Tosson, via hill fort to a busy Simonside where I soloed an easy climb. Thereafter didn't see any other walkers for the next 4 days. Great views. | Nick Canute | 16/09/2022 |
Simonside & Tosson Hill from Simonside CP. | Longwojo | 06/09/2022 |
Met an adder on the path near the car park | peebs | 15/08/2022 |
Rothbury, Garleigh Moor, Simonside, Tossing Hill then back same way. Very hot and dry underfoot. | Flatfield | 13/07/2022 |
With Figgy on a mild day. All-round lovely views from the ridge on way to Simonside then Tosson Hill , from Lordenshaw car park. | mazz | 29/05/2022 |
From Simonside car park then a soggy trudge back and forth to Tosson Hill - but the Simonside ridge is fabulous! | twg27 | 24/11/2021 |
From the car park and along the fabulous flagged footpath to Dove Crag and Simonside. Westwards to Raven then up the muddier path to Tosson Hill. Even muddier to Whitefield, but from there easy going forestry track to just south of Darden Rigg. Once back on the track we went past the Chartners Hostel until it reached the St Oswald's Way back to the car park. 4.20 hrs. | summitter | 05/11/2021 |
2 of 2: From Simonside. With Karen. | ChrisR | 13/10/2021 |
From Lordenshaw car park, up onto ridge over Simonside down and along path to Tosson Hill. Retraced steps back to signposted track junction. Took main track down towards car park following red route, then picked up green route path back to road and up road. 7.62 miles | JulieB | 31/07/2021 |
Lovely out and back over Simonside hills with Emma in glorious sunshine | Clive G | 01/07/2021 |
With Val. Parked at the Limekiln car park at Great Tosson. Good paths, well marked, all the way to the summit. Returned on same route. | mike.hoult | 30/06/2021 |
From Lordenshaws over Simonside to Tosson Hill, returning by the forest track N of Simonside. An enjoyable and scenic walk. | Nick Down1 | 29/05/2021 |
Parked at Lordenshaw car park and set off towards first Dove Crag, Old Stell Crag, Simonside and then finally onto Tosson Hill. Done all these hills several times before but still enjoyed the views. The path is excellent apart from the last km which was a wet soggy. Weather was overcast but dry so decided to retrace my inbound route back to the car park. GPS stats: 6.9mls in 2hrs and19mins. | JamesJones | 08/03/2021 |
Parking at Lordenshaw > Simonside > Tosson Hill > Darden Rigg along obvious and clear paths. Through the forest to Fallowlees and back up St Oswald's Way to Lordenshaw. | JohnR | 27/09/2020 |
From Great Tosson car park. Clear paths all the way. Minor detour to Simonside on the way back. Much busier when I joined routes from the Simonside Forestry car park. | squeegs | 27/08/2020 |
From Great Tosson. Much quieter than Simonside. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 19/08/2020 |
Simonside and Tosson Hill from the CP at NZ052987. | summitsup | 11/08/2020 |
Simonside and Tosson hill, been here several times beforebut not logged. | cjo | 10/08/2020 |
Run up from the parking area to the east over Simonside to Tosson Hill and back. 7.3 miles in 1 hour 18 minutes. Weather mostly cloudy with a bit of sun. Quite popular. | isabelle | 21/07/2020 |
Along Coquetdale from Wropton, then up bridleway past Hepple Whitefield. Along faint RoW from a pair of shooting huts. | KeithByTheC | 15/07/2020 |
Rothbury-Garleigh Hill-Simonside-Tosson Hill-Rothbury. Very wet underfoot due to recent bad weather | Gary Heath | 29/02/2020 |
Included Simonside Hills and Little Church Stone | Llondon | 12/01/2020 |
From Great Tosson, Siomonside first. On to Darden Rigg. | jonglew | 29/10/2019 |
Previously done 23/11/2003. | Jhimmy | 29/10/2019 |
From the Simonside Forestry car Park (Near great Tosson) - Along the Road to pick up St Oswalds Way - Short section then along the ridge path to Simonside the Tosson beyond. Path to Simonside busy once on Tosson not a soul to be seen save us. Back via forestry track along the side of Coe Burn. | briandavies | 02/10/2019 |
With G. From Hepple Whitefield > Tosson Hill return same route | RT1970 | 23/05/2019 |
From Simonside along path. On to Darden Rigg and back the same way. Good views on way back once cloud cleared. | PeterD | 27/11/2018 |
Solo trip. Best day of the week: warm, sunny and the wind dropped at last. Interesting geology in the flagstones along the path. | Invicta14 | 10/10/2018 |
With Gerald | Rob Pen y Garn | 01/10/2018 |
G R | Idris | 01/10/2018 |
Solo | HFB | 30/09/2018 |
From car park to East on St. Oswald's Way via Dove Crag and Simonside. | raffemeister | 15/09/2018 |
Paths and tracks from the east. | Topographer57 | 04/08/2018 |
With Simonside Crags | nickywood1 | 03/08/2018 |
Simonside Hills ridge with Peter | nix_snilloc | 08/07/2018 |
5/5 Marilyn day. The ascent of Tosson Hill (441) from the FC car park. Steeply up through the wood, then west along the clear track around the wood and across the moor to the summit. A round trip of 9km in 2 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 29/05/2018 |
9 mile out-and-back walk from car park east of Garleigh Moor, over pathless ground from road onto Garleigh Hill, then down to footpath west, along to Simonside Hills car park and followed well made paths all the way along the ridge to Simonside summit, descended steeply and followed boggy footpath along to Tosson Hill then back to car park missing the Simonside ridge taking the forest lane north instead. Perfect autumn/winter weather cold, clear and bright. | DanTrig | 06/11/2017 |
Walked from CP at east end of ridge, over Simonside | IanHHill | 31/10/2017 |
From Lordenshaw via Simonside. | Nick Caunt | 23/09/2017 |
From car park at 037 997, initially up through forest on path then track, then path across moorland to top. | Cas-gwent | 20/07/2017 |
With J from the Lordenshaw car park on a bright, sunny but breezy day during a trip to Newcastle. Followed the path, being repaired in sections, over The Beacon, Dove Crag, Simonside & then dropped to the crossroads of paths/tracks, before following the path over the heathery moor to the summit which is a decent viewpoint. Then returned back to the crossroads of paths/tracks just NW of Simonside where we helped out a couple we'd noticed wandering through the heather earlier - a bit lost & no map. Took the lower track heading NE & then E which does not & never seems to have ever gone through the forest as marked on the OS map, judging by the state of the ground. About 200m from the end, we turned S on a short connecting path to rejoin the outward route just underneath the top of Dove Crag. An excellent wander out. | NotReallyABagger | 25/06/2017 |
From Lordenshaw cp. | jimbloomer | 31/05/2017 |